Digital science in Latin America: Scope and benefits

The use of digital tools is transforming scientific production processes and their impacts. In this article we evaluate to what extent digitalization in science has reached Latin American scientific activity and what have been its effects. For this purpose, we use bibliometric data from three medium...

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Autores: del Castillo, Martín Guillermo, Arza, Valeria
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:español
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Palabra clave:BIBLIOMETRICS
COLLABORATION
DIFFUSION
DIGITAL SCIENCE
IMPACT
LATIN AMERICA
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La ciencia digital en América Latina: Alcance y beneficios
title Digital science in Latin America: Scope and benefits
spellingShingle Digital science in Latin America: Scope and benefits
del Castillo, Martín Guillermo
BIBLIOMETRICS
COLLABORATION
DIFFUSION
DIGITAL SCIENCE
IMPACT
LATIN AMERICA
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.9
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
title_short Digital science in Latin America: Scope and benefits
title_full Digital science in Latin America: Scope and benefits
title_fullStr Digital science in Latin America: Scope and benefits
title_full_unstemmed Digital science in Latin America: Scope and benefits
title_sort Digital science in Latin America: Scope and benefits
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv del Castillo, Martín Guillermo
Arza, Valeria
author del Castillo, Martín Guillermo
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Arza, Valeria
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv BIBLIOMETRICS
COLLABORATION
DIFFUSION
DIGITAL SCIENCE
IMPACT
LATIN AMERICA
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.9
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
topic BIBLIOMETRICS
COLLABORATION
DIFFUSION
DIGITAL SCIENCE
IMPACT
LATIN AMERICA
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.9
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
description The use of digital tools is transforming scientific production processes and their impacts. In this article we evaluate to what extent digitalization in science has reached Latin American scientific activity and what have been its effects. For this purpose, we use bibliometric data from three medium-sized Latin American countries that have an important scientific trajectory: Argentina, Chile, and Colombia, focusing the analysis on four disciplines: biological and agricultural sciences, earth and planetary sciences, environmental sciences, and decisional sciences. We find that digitalization has been growing for the past 25 years, but the gap with leading countries has only narrowed slightly. Likewise, the incidence of digitalization varies by discipline. In terms of benefits associated with digitalization, our results show that articles that use digital science practices or tools have greater academic impact (have more citations), more collaboration (more co-authors), and more internationalization (authors from a larger number of countries). In other words, in these disciplines and in these countries, digitalization has managed to increase the visibility of research, potentially its quality and, thus, the social returns of the resources invested. Networks have also been expanded, thus promoting a better use of collective intelligence and the integration of local research problems into a global agenda, potentially increasing the resources devoted to research in these countries.
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spelling Digital science in Latin America: Scope and benefitsLa ciencia digital en América Latina: Alcance y beneficiosdel Castillo, Martín GuillermoArza, ValeriaBIBLIOMETRICSCOLLABORATIONDIFFUSIONDIGITAL SCIENCEIMPACTLATIN AMERICAhttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.9https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5The use of digital tools is transforming scientific production processes and their impacts. In this article we evaluate to what extent digitalization in science has reached Latin American scientific activity and what have been its effects. For this purpose, we use bibliometric data from three medium-sized Latin American countries that have an important scientific trajectory: Argentina, Chile, and Colombia, focusing the analysis on four disciplines: biological and agricultural sciences, earth and planetary sciences, environmental sciences, and decisional sciences. We find that digitalization has been growing for the past 25 years, but the gap with leading countries has only narrowed slightly. Likewise, the incidence of digitalization varies by discipline. In terms of benefits associated with digitalization, our results show that articles that use digital science practices or tools have greater academic impact (have more citations), more collaboration (more co-authors), and more internationalization (authors from a larger number of countries). In other words, in these disciplines and in these countries, digitalization has managed to increase the visibility of research, potentially its quality and, thus, the social returns of the resources invested. Networks have also been expanded, thus promoting a better use of collective intelligence and the integration of local research problems into a global agenda, potentially increasing the resources devoted to research in these countries.El empleo de herramientas digitales está transformando los procesos de producción científica y sus impactos. En este trabajo evaluamos en qué medida la digitalización en ciencia ha alcanzado a la actividad científica en América Latina y cuáles han sido sus efectos. Para eso, utilizamos datos bibliométricos de tres países latinoamericanos de tamaño medio, Argentina, Chile y Colombia, que tienen una trayectoria científica importante y el análisis lo hemos centrado en cuatro disciplinas: ciencias biológicas y agrícolas, ciencias de la tierra y planetarias, ciencias ambientales y ciencias decisionales. Encontramos que la digitalización ha ido creciendo durante los últimos 25 años, pero la brecha con los países líderes sólo se ha reducido levemente. Asimismo, la incidencia de la digitalización varía por disciplina. En términos de beneficios asociados a la digitalización, nuestros resultados muestran que los artículos que utilizan prácticas o herramientas de ciencia digital tienen mayor impacto académico (tienen más citas), más colaboración (más coautorías) y más internacionalización (autorías de un mayor número de países). Es decir, en estas disciplinas y en estos países, la digitalización ha logrado aumentar la visibilidad de la investigación, potencialmente su calidad y, así, los retornos sociales de los recursos invertidos. También se han ampliado las redes, propiciando de esta forma un mejor aprovechamiento de la inteligencia colectiva y la integración de los problemas de investigación locales a una agenda global, aumentando potencialmente los recursos que se destinan a la investigación en estos países.Fil: del Castillo, Martín Guillermo. Universidad Nacional de San Martín; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Arza, Valeria. Universidad Nacional de San Martín; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas2021-03info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/198062del Castillo, Martín Guillermo; Arza, Valeria; Digital science in Latin America: Scope and benefits ; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; Arbor; 197; 799; 3-2021; 1-200210-19631988-303XCONICET DigitalCONICETspainfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.3989/arbor.2021.799008info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2024-05-08T13:42:47Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/198062instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982024-05-08 13:42:47.693CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
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